元宇宙视域下的功能游戏:本质特征、媒介逻辑与社会价值

The“Unmasking”of Games:Essential Features,Media Logic,and Social Values of Serious Games from a Meta-cosmic Perspective

功能游戏是强调游戏公共性与社会性的游戏,但受限于功能性与游戏性的发展不平衡,当下功能游戏并未得到广泛推行。从游戏本质来看,功能游戏强调社会性和功能性特征,以此为轴可划分四种基本类型:“社会—强功能游戏”“社会—弱功能游戏”“个人—强功能游戏”及“个人—弱功能游戏”。从媒介逻辑来看,元宇宙视域下游戏作为场景媒介的价值凸显,功能游戏有望借力数字技术升级来解决功能性与游戏性失衡的发展困境。具体来说,未来功能游戏可通过表层的开发机制、中层的叙事机制与深层的媒介技术机制迭代,实现功能性与游戏性协同发展,在元宇宙带来的虚实混合场景中展现向外连接与向内重组的社会价值。

Serious games are games that emphasize the publicity and social nature of games,but due to the unbalanced development of functionality and gameplay,serious games have not been widely implemented.From the nature of the game,serious games emphasize social and functional characteristics,and based on this axis,four basic types can be divided:social-high-function games,social-low-function games,and individual-high-function games and individual-low-function games.From the perspective of media logic,serious games in the metaverse are expected to solve the development dilemma of the imbalance between functionality and gameplay.Specifically,in the future,serious games can iterate through the development mechanism of the surface layer,the narrative mechanism of the middle layer,and the deep media technology mechanism to realize the coordinated development of functionality and gameplay and show the external connection in the metaverse.